I have 3 areas that I continue to explore and would love to find valuable opportunities in these areas at the Spring Conference, my 3rd Jiveworld:

1. I am very interested in integration with Jive. Large platforms like PeopleSoft, SharePoint, and Salesforce to desktop apps like WebEx or Jabber. The commercialization of IT has every business person pushing for the new thing and riding a hype cycle, like Office 365 and Delve. While a clear strategy can help, it doesn't prevent the weekend IT reader from delegating a new product purchase without clearly understanding the potential and capabilities of a current investment. Surely consultant in and around Jive has some tactics for managing up beyond the metrics and analytics. I would appreciate a forum where this challenge is explored.

2. I would love to see Cloud examples that have been pushed to the max on customization capabilities. From the fairly obvious "themeing" techniques to customized app actions to accomplish a business activity.

3. In our industry, Compliance and regulatory requirements are a very high priority. I would like some deep dive access to recommendations and experience in this area.

One thing I have found with this emergent technology is that in a lot of areas, the best practice is still the best guess. I would just like to be able to learn from others' best guesses by being paired with others on a similar path. Many of the suggestions here, bulletin boards and lounge for example, would be good opportunities for us. I also like the idea of badge recognition and table signs during food breaks that could be used as social cues to get a conversation started.

An advanced track would be especially beneficial for us. We're having a hard time getting approval for our technical resources to attend because the content being presented is no longer useful or applicable after attending for the last four years. If we had the ability to schedule table sessions with engineers that we could bounce ideas off of, it would be enormously beneficial for us. (We wouldn't mind sharing some of our ideas for enhancements too.)

Open-source technology has made a world of difference for us (we solved the executive reporting challenge for free), but with the speed of innovation, there have got to be some best practices and recommendations for using and integrating with open-source tools. An OpenJive session anyone??? Think of all the possibilities that could come out of that box.

On the front-of-house side, I'd benefit more from advanced topics around user experience, the use of color and images in content/place design, and the data that powers those decisions.

What about SAP integration to like say C4C. SAP now has SAP JAM, which does integrate with C4C and most companies have SAP! How does Jive plan to compete? If you pretend it's not there or doesn't matter because they are not yet mature, that's is just plain dumb. What are your thoughts? What is your direction? You created nice integration with SalesForce, you really need to do the same with C4C.